the
bitter
feud
between
the
Montagues
and
the
Capulets
thus
forged
between
young lover's crest
behold
Romeo and Juliet
indeed
both
star crossed lovers
at best
until
their
untimely
death
whispered
to
them
both
a
quiet death
Such deep, impassioned, love
startles our mortal ways.
Could we possibly have that
same eternal love?
Flowing in our souls and blood,
and being blind, make light of it?
How blessed, how young, how
fortunate,lovers they!
To refuse on this fetid earth to stay.
And of poison did imbibe and hence
dance forever in a moonlit sky.,
Willing to live in eternity, together. oh!
Not a beautiful flower, nor a stunning
sunset, no!
Could keep them here, why, on this so
controlling a place!
Be still this night and you will hear their
enchanting and bubbling laughter..
It whispers in trees, eternally, day and
night, a fortnight and foreverafter.
Poem ~1~
February 14, 2024
We’re destined to love and fated to seethe.
But our stars don’t align
Were you somebody who just meant to leave?
If walking away was the correct choice to find a delight
Was I ever part of your everyday thinking?
If not, I should’ve kept things right
I miss your morning kisses running on my cheeks
I miss our evening catfights…
This time, I just sigh and wreathe.
Holding on in a little wood shack
Their memories will always remain
Knowing somehow forever is not to be
Warm moments dull the pain
He said, Are we star-crossed lovers?
She said, No don’t talk that way
He said, Are we star-crossed lovers?
She said, No don’t talk that way.
Leaving leaves all behind
Or so it was supposed to be
But no one knew what was to come
As they prepared to flee
She said, Are we star-crossed lovers?
He said, No don’t talk that way.
She said, Are we star-crossed lovers?
He said, No don’t talk that way.
When all the sky began to fall
And the ground began to crack
The moment came to say goodbye
And remember that little wood shack
He said, Are we star-crossed lovers?
She said, No don’t talk that way
He said, Are we star-crossed lovers?
She said, No don’t talk that way.
Before we go to sleep tonight,
I'll remember what we have.
I won't feel sad that you are not here,
Cos we have true romance.
We have it all a love so bright,
Like a diamond in the sky.
Look at the stars from where you are,
We are the bright one on the right,
We'll be together despite the odds, no matter how we have to fight.
You are you and I am me, together we make me,
I feel giddy when I see you,
And I just know you feel the same way too.
So when we are together, nothing can go wrong,
And as years go past our love will grow more strong.
"From forth the fatal loins of these two foes,
A pair of star cross'd lovers take their life,
Whose misadventur'd piteous overthrows
Doth with their death bury their parents' strife."
— Prologue, Romeo and Juliet
As teens, they were told you’re too young
Time passed and they both were married
Another vowed they were among
Lovers who stole hearts once buried
Time passed and they both were married
Like this might mend the wounds within
Lovers who stole hearts once buried
Bygones could tell of pain that’s been
Like this might mend the wounds within
Where battles left them so forlorn
Bygones could tell of pain that’s been
As they stayed in darkness to mourn
Where battles left them so forlorn
Star-crossed lovers - hear hearts breaking
As they stayed in darkness to mourn
The feelings felt were earthshaking
Star-crossed lovers - hear hearts breaking
Another vowed they were among
The feelings felt were earthshaking
As teens, they were told you’re too young
This sparkling girl had an inborn predilection
for the lilting life’s passionate piquancy.
In the rhapsodic ripples of zephyr
she floated like a beguiled butterfly
across her seamless sensuous sky called life,
and on its wings she painted her dreams
like the flowers in the valley of love.
When his magnetic aura spread on her feelings,
and encompassed her to wrest her identity,
her tender heart instantly gleamed
in the halo of exalted adoration.
Her horizon splashed the spectrum of ecstasy,
that turned into the canvas of reverie.
Virtual euphoria took her to fathomless fantasy,
she didn’t see storm clouds gather in smoky sky.
At the ebony edge of the gloomy night,
the fading stars crossed her sky of crashing strife.
He wrecked her emotion, an epitome of adulation,
the shards of dream dispersed in the debris.
Her broken hearted bruised love she felt
wane in the abyss of despair, she was lost in denial.
A tsunami of apathy parted the star-crossed lovers,
she searched for solace in spiritual self-credence.
A Venusian and Martian met one day
But a language barrier stood in their way.
They observed the stars
Between Venus and Mars
Still, they had very little to say.
Both are unique and complex in make
Desiring a love that would make Earth shake.
Though broken at heart
They must stay apart.
There are plenty more options to take.
If only their warring families knew
Of the chemistry existing between these two!
They might try to seek peace
Cultural conflicts may cease...
The Marnusians would be a form new.
Unfortunately life doesn't work that way
Whatever fairytales and fantasies say.
Each a star-crossed lover
Secret. Undercover.
Their affection doomed til their dying day.
If a single star, is a brief delay
For a ship too far, in a far-fetched way
Then a full-flung fling, on a fateful fly
Is a hull-hung thing, on a hateful high
When I sing my song, in a sad singer's voice
In a mad sing-along, and a bad singer’s choice
There is just one wrong, and a single mystery
For a solitary gong, and a salty melody
On a Monday night, by the stars far away
There is just one bite, in a Mars Milky Way
And the gloam, you ignite, by the sand, and the sea
Is the poem, you recite, for the canned revelry
For the star-crossed two, living two-crossed lives
Where the hard-frost gives, and the chard survives
There is plenty to do, when the dew-drop dies
And the last laugh lives, where the least love lies.
Romeo and Juliet; Stella and Will; Rose and Jack;
In stories, novels, and films star-crossed lovers are many;
Though they love like cherubims, why do their stars soon shine black?
Fate pushes them toward death, after tempting them plenty...!
It's not the celluloid heroes and heroines suffer,
Many love immensely; thorns and not flowers they acquire;
As though constantly tempted by Satan, like Lucifer,
Though young in mind and heart, fast they find perpetual pyre...!
How much they strive, day by day, to hold fast to each other!
Yet, their hold, like that of Rose and Jack of Titanic, slips;
Thunder and lightning and rains, and icebergs play bad weather,
They are torn from each other by circumstantial eclipse...!
No cause is left to live; existence comes to a standstill,
Thrills killed; pains filled; they part from each other against their will...!!!
A familiar tale so oft told
of one so shy .. the other bold
an affair that started in the rain
was love a consequence or pain?
We talked
Then walked
The stars aligned
Too briefly
Now two fates
Resigned
We hoped
We dreamed
But not to be
The ache
Frustrates
Reality
A senseless joy
When girl
Meets boy
To lose
Un-promised
Hopeful joy
Life is cruel
Life is kind
No guarantee
Of hearts
Designed
To meet
The purpose
Only time
Will tell
It's secret
To this
Living spell
The universe
Is not to blame
We are not pawns
In some
Heavenly
Game
The stars
Burn brightly
For the few
So brief, and yet
Such beauty, true.
Healing waits
And nothing's
Wasted
Just grateful
Briefest love
Was tasted
There are two of us in here,
each hoping God will appear.
Ego seeks gain, our soul, bliss;
joy where there’s nothing amiss.
In truth we’re soul but know not,
since we are in thought forms caught,
so ego claims that it’s us
and kicks our soul off the bus.
Ego’s at head, soul at heart,
both within, yet stand apart,
thus causing inner conflict.
Who should we keep, who evict?
Wisdom known to very few:
have the cake and eat it too,
is the adage we follow,
making thoughts slow, heart mellow.
To survive, ego aligns
with heart, which for God’s touch pines
and thus they collaborate,
that bliss beats within gyrate.
Now as unified presence,
we sense God’s omnipresence,
which simply is, love and light,
throbbing by day and by night.
Star-crossed lovers, we once were
but now that we both concur,
each performs its ordained role,
that we feel blissful and whole.
She walked with God
and he walked alone
When they would meet
the relationship
became the three of them
But he would never accept
the power of the supreme
And so the battle began
of the star-crossed lovers
accompanied by the Man
"I believe in cave men"
he would say
as she would scream in horror
"We agreed our daughter would learn creationism"
she would plead
as he would look stupified
The bold and troublesome exchanges
never stopped
and it wouldn't be long that their relationship
would begin to topple over
And so the two of them, the woman and God
would leave the man to his own devices
and he would have nothing left but his tears
and confusion
But she would remain happy
as whereever she went
'He' was with her
As for the man
he has a black cat named Stella
and a Wawa supreme pizza everynight
They moved when the night falls,
And when the moon is high
Then, the howl of the wolf's call
Into the night.
Like the wind they blow by
Quietly without any sound
Two star crossed lovers kissing goodbye
Into the night.
There’s not enough time to spare
For the morning will rise once more
We won’t let anyone to see us or dare
Into the night.
Shadows together are we
Just you and I my love
Loving each other and being free
Into the night.
Soon morning will meet us
As we bid each other goodnight
We make our way to bed without a fuss
Slipping away from the night.
17 March 2022
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